diff --git a/manifest.dhall b/manifest.dhall
index d059a30c76de8daf5bf2d8c7b7ba1ec593e820e9..9f04d9bc12797f5e25ee6212fb1bfabc3b8ce7f1 100644
--- a/manifest.dhall
+++ b/manifest.dhall
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ in  [ callHackage "Cabal" "3.8.1.0"
     , callHackage "path-io" "1.7.0"
     , callHackage "path" "0.9.2"
     , callHackage "pcg-random" "0.1.3.7"
+    , callHackage "pcre-light" "0.4.1.0"
     , callHackage "pcre2" "2.2.1"
     , callHackage "pem" "0.2.4"
     , callHackage "persistent-template" "2.12.0.0"
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index 5d8262346606564a72b8da60adc7929294d75c86..e802c252f2c31750ab36300fcb25518cd77539fe 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -783,6 +783,8 @@ self: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
   pcg-random = self.callPackage (./pkgs/pcg-random.nix) { };
 
+  pcre-light = self.callPackage (./pkgs/pcre-light.nix) { };
+
   pcre2 = self.callPackage (./pkgs/pcre2.nix) { };
 
   pem = self.callPackage (./pkgs/pem.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/pcre-light.nix b/pkgs/pcre-light.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6feed21748c6f0f7b1e6b54dfe4fb8fbb3bc87a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/pcre-light.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ mkDerivation
+, base
+, bytestring
+, containers
+, HUnit
+, lib
+, mtl
+, pcre
+}:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "pcre-light";
+  version = "0.4.1.0";
+  sha256 = "16f6bfaa320bba91cd0c1a502d871c1c7a3a2de2d58dfaa2d90dba6558d51b53";
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = false;
+  enableSeparateDataOutput = false;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base bytestring ];
+  librarySystemDepends = [ pcre ];
+  testHaskellDepends = [ base bytestring containers HUnit mtl ];
+  enableLibraryProfiling = false;
+  enableExecutableProfiling = false;
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  doBenchmark = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  homepage = "https://github.com/Daniel-Diaz/pcre-light";
+  description = "Portable regex library for Perl 5 compatible regular expressions";
+  license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  broken = false;
+}